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May 17, 2013

Letters to the editor: Scope of Styrofoam ban questioned

I am an employee of a Portland-based company that distributes expanded polystyrene shipping containers to local seafood companies. I write this letter in the hope that it may help the Portland City Council understand some important questions and concerns of some who work and/or live in Portland regarding the proposed citywide Styrofoam ban (“Portland moves […]
Published
May 16, 2013

Letters to the editor: Cutler must test himself in party primary

In the last gubernatorial election, I voted for Eliot Cutler after concluding that Libby Mitchell wouldn’t defeat Paul LePage and that Cutler had the best chance. I had reservations over Gov. LePage, based on his campaign. Unfortunately, he has fulfilled my reservations and then some, especially his negative rhetoric, bullying tactics and his simplistic black-and-white […]
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May 15, 2013

Letters to the editor: Maine public schools have proud history

A few years ago, I bought a book titled simply “A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts.” A work of nonfiction published soon after the War of 1812, it tells of a doctor who was one of the crew of a privateer captured by the British and then sent to England to spend the […]
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May 14, 2013

Letters to the editor: Bill would revive union insurance monopoly

I understand that the Press Herald looks at everything Maine from a liberal perspective. However, I was surprised to find not one mention of L.D. 300, “An Act to Protect School Administrative Units and Taxpayers.” How could anyone not love that title? The only problem is that the act protects neither schools nor taxpayers. It […]
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May 13, 2013

Letters to the editor: NRA brushes off risks guns pose to kids

During the recent National Rifle Association convention, a seminar titled “Home Defense Concepts” was conducted by Rob Pincus, a so-called “gun safety advocate and firearms instructor.” Pincus recommended to attendees that a “quick-access safe (containing guns of course, loaded and ready to be fired) be placed in the closet of your kids’ room.” His rationale […]

Published
May 12, 2013

Letters to the editor: Mainers deserve fair eel quotas

Casual observers might have taken the April 30 public hearing in Augusta on the draft American eel fisheries management plan by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to be a referendum on government interference in a region’s right to a state-specific resource. This outreach (“Maine fishermen resist eel harvest quotas,” May 1) was actually conducted […]
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May 11, 2013

Letters to the editor: Grades offer accurate view of schools

Complaints about the release of A-F grades for Maine schools include that they: a) mostly reflect socioeconomic status; b) were downgraded when at least 95 percent of the students didn’t take the state assessment tests; c) measured only math and English; d) included students who are learning English; and e) don’t use “a holistic and […]
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May 10, 2013

Letters to the editor: Baxter offers many long-term benefits

I am a Baxter Academy parent. Much has been assumed about what we want. Here is what I want. I want to hear about those who’ve always put the kids first: the board, staff and 50 enthusiastic parent volunteers. The charter process is not for the faint of heart. I have never witnessed […]
Published
May 9, 2013

Letters to the editor: King should look at pipeline’s upside

The Keystone XL pipeline project was proposed in 2005 for the purposes of transporting tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Five years later, the energy marketplace is finally growing tired of baseless assertions by environmental groups, and the project seems to be gaining bipartisan support. Not surprisingly, freshman Sen. Angus King recently […]
Published
May 8, 2013

Letters to the editor: Illegal abortion would yield more Gosnells

I knew it wouldn’t take long, once I read about the the trial of illegal-abortion provider Kermit Gosnell, for M.D. Harmon (“ Philadelphia mass-murder trial finally getting attention ,” April 19) and others with an anti-choice agenda to try to spin human misery into talking points. As much as the “Keep government out of my […]

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